"Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born."

-- Loren Eiseley

#Born Quotes #Impossibility Quotes

“I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.”
“Finding the book was like kissing a lightning bolt.”
“Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.”
“Actions are but lifeless forms whose soul is the secret of sincerity in them”
“What I find really attractive is something that's going to be a little dangerous. Something that might get me into trouble; you know, you turn up in London and you've just rewritten Dickens. And, of course, then you think, 'What have I done?”
“Can you dance?" she asked before she could stop herself. "I can," he said, affronted. "I'm really good with the slow songs.”

Source : Jana Oliver (2012). “Foretold: A Demon Trappers Novel”, p.233, Macmillan
“Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.”

Source : Advice to her pupils. Quoted in Alan Kendall The Tender Tyrant: Nadia Boulanger (1976).
“I'm really into California art from the '60s.”

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